The COMPON project has hosted workshops on several occasions; COMPON related panels have also been presented at a number of academic conferences. More information on those workshops and presentations, as well as upcoming presentations, is below.
November 2011 - Frankfurt, Germany
Clare Saunders (UK) and Volker Schneider (Germany) organized and held a European Compon panel at the Third German Environmental Sociology Summit. Conference theme: "Innovation and Sustainability: Beyond Technology." 16-18 November, 2011 at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany. Sponsored by the German Sociological Society's Section on Environmental Sociology and the Institute for the Analysis of Society and Policy at the Goethe-University Frankfurt in cooperation with the Institute for Social-Ecological Research Frankfurt (ISOE).
October 2011 - Bucheon City, South Korea
An East Asia Compon panel with Jun Jin (China), Koichi Hasegawa (Japan), Dowan Ku (Korea), Tze-Luen Lin (Taiwan) and Jeff Broadbent (Overview of Compon Project) was held at the 3rd International Symposium on Environmental Sociology in East Asia, 21-23 October 2011 at The Catholic University, Bucheon City, South Korea. The conference theme was "Towards Environmentally Sustainable East Asia." Abstracts are available for presentations given by Japan and Korea.
June 2011 - Yokohama, Japan
The Japan Compon team presented a panel on Japanese climate change news coverage at the 43rd Seasonal Meeting of the Japanese Association for Environmental Sociology was held at Kanto Gakuin University on 4th-5th June 2011. Click here for more information on the panel.
February 2011 - Washington, D.C.
A COMPON panel presented media analysis findings at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting on 18 February 2011. Click here for pictures and more information.
November 2010 - Yokohama, Japan
Jeff Broadbent presented the findings of the Compon project concerning Asia at a conference titled "Capacity Building Workshop on Carbon Governance in Asia: Bridging Scales and Disciplines". Click here for more information.
September 2010 - Washington, D.C.
The PI presented an overview of the COMPON interim results at a conference for National Science Foundation "Human and Social Dynamics - Agents of Change" grant recipients. Click here for pictures from this event, and to see the conference programme.
July 2010 - Gothenburg, Sweden
Many COMPON researchers presented in COMPON-related panels at the a href="http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2010/index.htm">International Sociological Association meeting in July 2010 in Gotherburg, Sweden. Click here for more information and photographs.
July 2010 - Gothenburg, Sweden
Members of the COMPON project presented a panel at RC24 (Environment and Society) International Symposium held before the International Sociological Association meeting in July 2010 in Gotherburg, Sweden. More information about these events can be found here.
March 2010 - Paris, France
COMPON team members presented at the Institut du developpement durable et des relations internationales (IDDRI) in Paris, France, in a panel titled, "Comparing National Responses to Global Climate Change". Click here for more information about this event.
March 2010 - Paris, France
The Fourth Compon Open Workshop was held at the Institut du developpement durable et des relations internationales (IDDRI) in Paris, France in March 2010. Please click here for more information about that event.
December 2009 - Copenhagen
Many Compon partners and supporters attended the COP15 Climate Change talks in Copenhagen in December 2009. Click here to view photos of this event.
November 2009 - Hsinchu, Taiwan
COMPON project teams from East Asia held a project workshop prior to the Second International Symposium on Environmental Sociology in East Asia (conference theme: Low-Carbon Society and Green Collar Alternative). Click here for more information on and pictures of this event.
April 2009 - Bonn, Germany
COMPON project teams participated in the 7th International Science Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change in April 2009; this conference is also referred to as the IHDP Open Meeting 2009. COMPON presented two panels at this conference, the agendas for which can be viewed here: COMPON Panel 1 | COMPON Panel 2.
April 2009 - Bonn, Germany
The Third Compon Open Workshop was held in Bonn before the formal IHDP conference. A summary of this workshop can be found here, and the schedule for the workshop can be found here.
February 2008 - Berlin, Germany
COMPON project teams participated in the Berlin, Germany
Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change. Abstracts for COMPON panel presentations can be found in the conference program under H2 - Using the Policy Network Approach to Study Earth Systems Climate Change Governance.
February 2008 - Berlin
The Second Compon Open Workshop was held in Berlin after the Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change. Click here for the conference agenda.
May 2007 - Corfu, Greece
COMPON researchers presented a panel at the International Sunbelt Social Network Conference (the official conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis-INSNA). Abstracts for panel presentations can be found in the conference program under Sa-E2: Policy Networks on Climate Change B. Click here for the titles of all presentations given as part of the COMPON panel.
January 2007 - Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
The First Compon Open Workshop was held on Jan 26 and 27 after the conference on Risk and Response to Global Warming and Environmental Change: Lessons from Cross-National and Global Social Science Research.
January 2007 - Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
The COMPON project held its first conference, Risk and Response to Global Warming and Environmental Change: Lessons from Cross-National and Global Social Science Research, on January 25-28, 2007 at the University of Minnesota. Click here for the conference agenda, including participants and presentation titles.